And the winner is, envelope please… to go with O as the main base and run my HO at the club (along with the ceiling route).
The MTA transit trains were the determining factor and what clinched it was the R40 Slant F train cars that I just scored today on FeeBay.
Here’s a rough draft of what I just drew up. Stopped for the night because I’m tired.
The New York City area now encompasses 2 sides and the elevated expressway (I-95/BQE) in the upper right now becomes the separation from South Florida.
Subway concept has been replaced by a point to point L-shaped 2-track elevated line with a view block for the trains to disappear before they return. The view block may stay or may go. I had it there until half an hour ago when the right hand side of the layout was still part of South Florida. One of the guys in my club has both of the trains on his Christmas layout come to dead stops at 2 parts of his layout and then move on a minute later. I’ll ask him to show me how he does it. I’ll be using BridgeBoss to set up my elevated line. Station platform is 65 inches long so that it can fit any 4-car subway set.
You’ll notice that the left hand side of the layout has been replaced by an area in homage to where I grew up in Jamaica (the island, not the neighborhood in Queens 😊) with the train lines running through a tunnel underneath. I think I will have some fun building a mountain with a narrow road capturing the typical rural scene in Jamaica, and because its not underneath the table, my back and knees will appreciate it while its being worked on.
